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Accidental Guest Recordings \ Brooklyn \ Clean Girls \ noise punk \ noise rock \ punk \ smelly old real punk noise \ that's the best we had
Clean Girls – Despite You
Really can’t remember how we came across this. It’s a mystery that will likely never be solved, a blank spot in a memoir that will confuse scholars for centuries until that one, depraved individual does the right digging and pulls the corpse of the answer from out of its decaying tomb with “who the hell […]
black metal \ blasphemy supreme \ Chile \ Kratherion
Kratherion – Mantra Lucifer Flagelantes
Seems we’re on something of a black metal trend here as of late, so why not go further with it? One of the things we discussed in our last review was the issue of differentiating between classic black metal and the modern post variety. Yesterday it was the latter, today we step back to the former. […]
black metal \ Essential Purification Records \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Outre \ Poland \ post cereal \ post-black metal \ Third Eye Temple
Outre – Ghost Chants
Modern-day black metal usually has clear markers; you can look at how it presents itself and know immediately what to expect. This is especially true with post-black metal, where alterations to original themes are sometimes so unusual each band almost becomes a separate genre in itself, perhaps a separate country, or better to say planet, […]
Australia \ death metal \ factory stuff \ Giger stuff \ melodic \ Nemesium \ robot stuff \ stuff stuff \ technical
Nemesium – Sentient Cognizance
What is it with technical/melodic metal and artwork usually dense with organic, Gigeresque imagery? Swirling masses of thorn organs, smokestacks, skulls made from metal, gears, and general complexity always seems to be the norm. We suppose that makes sense considering what this type of metal is, but is it required? Must you have artwork that […]
Boar \ doom metal \ Finland \ Lost Pilgrims Records \ more weed than necessary \ stoner
Boar – Veneficae
Let’s kick it back and get high even though we’re straight edge (sorry, but it’s true for the editor anyway). How can you do such a thing, get high without the necessary substances? Easy, with modern doom and/or stoner, though the latter, being clearly about “the high”, would be your best option. Interestingly, you have […]
black metal \ Cassette Assault \ crust \ death metal \ Finland \ FUCK-USHIMA \ hardcore \ Impenitent Thief \ like look at all these goddamn tags Christ \ no way \ noise rock \ NoVisible Scars \ NY \ post-metal \ punk \ Serpent Eve Records \ sludge \ Trysth
CASSETTE ASSAULT – Bunch of Stuff With Puppy References
Different sort of thing today for you cassette-loving, tapedeck marrying, man-and-machine-legalization fiends out there, but still the plastic you love. In the past CASSETTE ASSAULT features we had something of a theme based on what we selected, but since these cassettes featured here were, first off, random, and second off the only ones we had […]
atmospheric \ black metal \ Cyrpus \ Greece \ I Voidhanger Records \ so deep you'll freak \ Tome of the Unreplenished
Tome of the Unreplenished – Innerstanding
And now for something totally esoteric. Different? Entry-level terminology for the uninitiated. This is different, it’s been fashioned from the most ancient of hands, a soul so old it defies the beginnings of the human race. We kind of needed a good bit of that. We’ve had classic black metal recently, some of the Satanic, […]
doom \ just so slow \ Shrine of the Serpent \ slow to the slow of the slowity \ sludge \ unsigned
Shrine of the Serpent – S/T
How slow can slow be? If one gets too slow can that slowly lead to slow degradation? Or is all slow good if we’re talking about doom? The word doom itself implies a slowing, if you will, so slow must be the way of the word and the truth, correct? Well, yes, theoretically, provided the […]
Abstracter \ awesome interview \ just yeah man black metal interview
Interview with Abstracter (They Don’t Like Band Pictures)
Here we are again autocrats and plebes (you should just leave if that’s you), it’s time for another awesome interview. Why are they awesome? Because they are here, on this site? Wrong, they are awesome because we only interview bands we think deserve it, or, well, sometimes bands we think deserve it who also finish answering […]
